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36 Peter Beinart, ‘The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment’, New York Review of Books, (10 June 2010).
37 Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs press report, (21 October 2010); see mfa.gov.il (Hebrew).
38 Eitan Dangot, ‘Strategies for Countering Delegitimisation and for Shaping Public Perceptions’, panel discussion, Countering Assaults on Israel’s Legitimacy, The S. Daniel Abraham Center for Strategic Dialogue, Netanya Academic College, (16 April 2012).
39 The Summary of the Eleventh Herzliya Conference; see herzliyaconference.org.
40 Ibid.
41 Rommey Hassman, ‘The Israeli Brand: Nation Marketing Under Constant Conflict’, policy paper presented at the Harold Hartog School of Government, University of Tel Aviv, (April 2008).
42 Ibid., p. 5.
43 Ibid., pp. 57–8.
Further Reading
Classical Zionism
Adelman, J. The Rise of Israel: A History of a Revolutionary State, London and New York: Routledge, 2008.
Bar-On, M. (ed.) Never-Ending Conflict: Israeli Military History, Westport, CT: Praeger, 2004.
Halpern, B. and Reinharz, J. Zionism and the Creation of a New Society, New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Kaplan, E. and Penslar, D. The Origins of Israel, 1882–1948, Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2011.
Laqueur, W. A History of Zionism: From the French Revolution to the Establishment of the State of Israel, Jerusalem: Schocken, 2003.
Penslar, D. Israel in History: The Jewish State in Comparative Perspective, London and New York: Routledge, 2006.
Shapira, A. Israel: A History, Boston: Brandeis University Press, 2012.
Shimoni, G. The Zionist Ideology, Boston: Brandeis University Press, 1995.
Wistrich, R. and Ohana, D. The Shaping of Israeli Identity: Myth, Memory and Trauma, London and New York: Routledge, 1995.
Post-Zionism
Alam, M. S. Israeli Exceptionalism: The Destabilising Logic of Zionism, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Ben-Asher, H. The Zionist Illusion, New York: iUniverse.com, 2010.
Beinart, P. The Crisis of Zionism, New York: Times Books, 2012
Butler, J. Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism, New York: Columbia University Press, 2012.
Ellis, M. H. Judaism Does Not Equal Israel: The Rebirth of the Jewish Prophetic, New York: New Press, 2009.
Feldt, J. The Israeli Memory Struggle: History and Identity in the Age of Globalisation, Copenhagen: University Press of Southern Denmark, 2007.
Ghazi-Boullion, A. Understanding the Middle East Peace Process: Israeli Academia and the Struggle for Identity, London and New York: Routledge, 2013.
Hilal, J. and Pappe, I. (ed.) Across the Wall: Narratives of Israeli–Palestinian History, London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2010.
Hilliard, C. Does Israel Have a Future? The Case for a Post-Zionist State, Washington: Potomac Books, 2009.
Isacoff, J. B. Writing the Arab–Israeli Conflict: Pragmatism and Historical Enquiry, New York: Lexington Books, 2006.
Kovel, J. Overcoming Zionism: Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine, London: Pluto, 2007.
Lentin, R. Co-Memory and Melancholia: Israelis Memorialising the Palestinian Nakba, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010.
Lowenstein, A. and Moor, A. After Zionism: One State for Israel and Palestine, London: Saqi Books, 2012.
Masalha, N. The Bible and Zionism: Invented Traditions, Archaeology and Postcolonialism in Palestine–Israel, London: Zed Books, 2007.
Pappe, I. (ed.) The Israel/Palestine Question: A Reader, London and New York: Routledge, 2007.
Podeh, E. The Arab–Israeli Conflict in Israeli History Textbooks, 1948–2000, New York: Information Age Publishing, 2005.
Prior, M. Zionism and the State of Israel: A Moral Enquiry, London and New York: Routledge, 1999.
Ram, U. The Globalisation of Israel: McWorld in Tel Aviv, Jihad in Jerusalem, London and New York: Routledge, 2007.
Roberts, J. Contested Land, Contested Memory: Israel’s Jews and Arabs and the Ghosts of Catastrophe, New York: Dundurn, 2013.
Rogan, E. and Shlaim, A. (ed.) The War for Palestine: Rewriting the History of 1948, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Rotberg, R. (ed.) Israeli and Palestinian Narratives of Conflict: History’s Double Helix, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2006.
Sand, S. The Words and the Land: Israeli Intellectuals and the Nationalist Myth, London: Semiotext(e), 2011.
Shafir, G. and Peled, Y. Being Israeli: The Dynamics of Multiple Citizenship, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Shatz, A. Prophets Outcast: A Century of Dissident Jewish Writing About Zionism and Israel, New York; Nation Books, 2004.
Silberstein, L. J. The Post-Zionism Debates: Knowledge and Power in Israeli Culture, London and New York: Routledge, 1999.
Slyomovics, S. The Object of Memory: Arab and Jew Narrate the Palestinian Village, Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998.
Yiftachel, O. Ethnocracy: Land and Identity Politics in Israel-Palestine, Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.
Zerubavel, Y. Recovered Roots: Collective Memory and the Making of Israeli National Tradition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.
Feminism and Gender in Israel
Abdo, N. Women in Israel: Race, Gender and Citizenship, London: Zed Books, 2011.
Abdo, N. and Lentin, R. Women and the Politics of Military Confrontation: Palestinian and Israeli Gendered Narratives of Dislocation, London: Berghahn Press, 2002.
Azmon, Y. and Izraeli, D. N. Women in Israel, New York: Transaction Publishers, 1993.
Bernstein, D. S. Pioneers and Homemakers: Jewish Women in Pre-State Israel, Albany, NY: State University of New York, 1992.
Dworkin, A. Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel and Women’s Liberation, New York: Free Press, 2000.
Haberman, B. D. Israeli Feminism Liberating Judaism: Blood and Ink, New York: Lexington Books, 2012.
Halperin-Kaddari, R. Women in Israel: A State of Their Own, Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003.
Kark, R. (ed.) Jewish Women in Pre-State Israel: Life History, Politics and Culture, Brandeis: University of Brandeis Press, 2008.
Katz, S. Women and Gender in Early Jewish and Palestinian Nationalism, Miami, FL: University of Florida Press, 2003.
Mayer, T. Women and the Israeli Occupation: The Politics of Change, London and New York: Routledge, 1994.
Misra, K. and Rich, M. Jewish Feminism in Israel: Some Contemporary Perspectives, Boston: Brandeis University Press, 2008.
Naveh, H. Gender and Israeli Society: Women’s Time, New York: Vallentine Mitchell, 2003.
Rom, M. and Benjamin, O. Feminism, Family and Identity in Israel: Women’s Marital Names, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Sharoni, S. Gender and the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict: The Politics of Women’s Resistance, Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1994.
Swirski, B. Calling the Equality Bluff: Women in Israel, New York: Teachers College Press, 1993.
Holocaust Memory
Achcar, G. The Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab–Israeli War of Narratives, London: Saqi Books, 2011.
Cohen, B. Israeli Holocaust Research: Birth and Evolution, London and New York: Routledge, 2012.
Fox, T. Inherited Memories: Israeli Children of Holocaust Survivors, New York: Cassel Academics, 1999.
Hilberg, R. The Politics of Memory: The Journey of a Holocaust Historian, New York: Ivan R. Dee, 2002.
Safdie, M. Yad Vashem: Moshe Safdie—The Architecture of Memory, Berlin: Lars Müller Publications, 2006.
Stauber, R. The Holocaust in Israeli Public Debate in the 1950s: Ideology and Memory, New York: Vallentine Mitchell, 2007.
Arab Jews and Mizrachim
Alcalay, A. After Jews and Arabs: Remaking Levantine Culture, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Pre
ss, 1992.
Bashkin, O. New Babylonians: A History of Jews in Modern Iraq, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012.
Shabi, R. We Look Like The Enemy: The Hidden Story of Israel’s Jews From Arab Lands, New York: Walker and Company, 2008.
Somekh, S. Baghdad Yesterday, The Making of an Arab Jew, New York: Ibis, 2007.
Culture in Israel
Barak-Erez, D. Outlawed Pigs: Law, Religion, and Culture in Israel, Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2007.
Fuhrer, R. Israeli Painting: From Post-Impressionism to Post-Zionism, New York: The Overlook Press, 1998.
Kahn, S. M. Reproducing Jews: A Cultural Account of Assisted Conception in Israel, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000.
Katriel, T. Performing the Past: A Study of Israeli Settlement Museums, London and New York: Routledge, 1997.
Mautner, M. Law and the Culture of Israel, New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Regev, M. and Seroussi, E. Popular Music and National Culture in Israel, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2004.
Stein, R. L. and Swedenberg, T. (ed) Palestine, Israel, and the Politics of Popular Culture, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005.
Talmon, M. and Peleg, Y. Israeli Cinema: Identities in Motion, Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2011.
Neo-Zionism
Gelber, Y. Nation and History: Israeli Historiography Between Zionism and Post-Zionism, New York: Vallentine Mitchell, 2011.
Hazony, D., Hazony, Y., and Oren, M. B. (ed.) New Essays on Zionism, Jerusalem: Shalem Press, 2007.
Hazony, Y. The Jewish State: The Struggle for Israel’s Soul, New York: Basic Books, 2001.
Morris, B. Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist–Arab Conflict, 1881–2001, New York: Vintage, 2001.
Mazur, Y. Zionism, Post-Zionism and the Arab Problem: A Compendium of Opinions About the Jewish State, New York: West Bow Press, 2012.